I am using Excel 2010 and am having difficulty with one old workbook created in Excel 2003. Lots of symptoms to report!
No other workbooks are giving me this problem. This problem file usually causes "MS Excel - (workbook name.xls) [Compatibility Mode] (Not responding) and a blank screen apart from the task bar and this Excel message on a single line across the top of the screen. Waiting doesn't solve the problem. If I close Excel and choose the "Close program" option, it sometimes shows me the file as I remember it for a couple of seconds, then the program closes. Re-opening the file just gives the same behaviour again. During the first few seconds of loading, I can see the message "Contacting server for information" at the bottom of the Excel screen.
In Task Manager I can find EXCEL.EXE *32 running. I'm using Windows 7 Pro 64 bit.
This is a file I use regularly in projects as a specialised calculator, and so I re-copy it each time and save it to save the calculation records in the project file. I've found that versions of the workbook created even several years ago and have given no trouble until now all suffer this problem, so it looks like a problem with Excel 2010. This is the first time I've tried to open these files since migrating from a Win XP computer running Excel 2003.
Please can anyone help me to open the file and to resolve the problem?
Thanks
There might be a calculation or a marcro activated on start up that messes things up.
Try the following:
Open the Excel application, with a blank workbook. Set calculation to manual. Now look up your Macro settings and set these to "disable with notifications".
With these things set, open your misbehaving workbook again and see what happens now. Dont let the macros (if any) start yet! Open the VBA Editor window and check for a script in Workbook called Workbook_Open. If that is present check its content or put a break in and debug it.
Let us know what you find, if any.
UPDATE:
It sounds like there is a database link to an external source that is trying to refresh on startup but isnt working correctly (anymore). I now remember likewise behaviour when I had an Excel workbook with tons of SQL queries in it that (in case of showing a complete table or view by applying SELECT * FROM ...) could overlap other data and that would create autoshutdowns for me. Change the option in the Trust Center for External Content to Disable when you open this workbook and let us know!
I have a client with the same issue. The problem was resolved by removing all the logo's (Images) from the sheet. It appears that the logo contains a link to some web site. I copied the logo into paint and copied it back.
Problem Solved!
It appears that an object placed in the sheet can have its own links embedded in it???
I hope this helps!
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I am getting an error when opening excel: We found a problem with some content in XXX. Do you want us to try and recover as much as we can? if you trust he source of this workbook, click Yes."
clicking Yes, "fixes" the issue but deletes a lot of VBA code, two weeks worth.
Whatever the issue it was introduced yesterday, I do not want to redo two weeks worth of coding. Is there anyway I can view what was removed, or open the VBA in notepad++ or something without opening the excel?
I opened another excel workbook and tried all the different options for the argument XlCorruptLoad in the Workbooks.Open to open the corrupt workbook. I noticed that there were two non existing sheets created in the project explroer of the corrupt workbook that had the code in there. I am not sure if it did that s a result of what I did or it was there all along and I did not notice it
Note that the reason I had a corrupted data is because the code was extracting a list and putting it in a cell validation formula..i guess I overloaded it.
Short version, my Excel is set properly to automatically update links and all my files(locally stored) work fine for years. Suddenly one will not update linked data. I click on Connections>Edit connections>Check Status every linked file has "Warning! Values referring to other workbooks were not updated"
Refresh/calculate all does nothing.Changing to manual and doing this, back to auto, open and closing, restarting, using these same files on another PC. Nothing I did fixes it.
Clicking into an individual cell(F2) then back out though updates that one cell.
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All security settings are correct I am 98% sure, regardless whatever settings I had haven't changed and it did work.
I read a post that seemed exactly the same but his solution was enable protected content. Not the case here, i disabled it fully. There seems to be an error causing this possibly..
Long version. This is my largest file I continue to build
I have a main excel sheet that is linked to 35 workbooks. The source workbooks have lists of 3-4 columns, ranging from 1,000-10,000 rows long. The main WB uses index match for each source to pull two small fields. It takes about 5-6mins to do a calculate all with a desktop i7 3.64ghz ivy with 16gb ram.I never have issues on. Win 10/64bit and office 2016 64bit.
Some source files are .xls, I am in the process of changing them to xlsx but when I open the xls file and the values update. I then save as xlsx with a shorter name as well (trying to lighten the formulas) I go back to Connections>Edit connections>Check Status and the same warning is there. However I can click update values and it says OK.
This is very important file and is not physically monitored. Until something sells wrong I realize it wasnt updated, I am hoping for a concrete answer I can solve instead of just changing random things and hoping.. all help is greatly appreciated!
I actually resolved this by opening all source workbooks with the main workbook open and resaving them one by one (Status on some turned OK, most remained). Then I simply used Edit Links and Update Values for each connection which changed the status to OK. Saved the main workbook and no more issues..
Yes I need to take those suggestions and the workbook to the next level as it has clearly outgrown my skillset, but getting there..
I have a .xlsm file named A on my Laptop.
With macros it also has data validation(simple lists) applied to some cells.
I copy this file and paste it in a network shared folder so that it is visible on PC 1. ( I saved it by the name B.).
I open the file B on my laptop, it works fine.
Now I go to the PC 1 where I had copied it, and open it on the PC.
On opening the file B, I find that the macros work fine, but the data validation is not working. Those cells don't even show arrows.
Note: My laptop has Excel 2013, and the PC has excel 2007.
I don't understand if its a version difference problem or security problem or something else.
Hope I have been clear in explaining my doubt.
Please let me know where am I going wrong.
Looking Forward,
Thanks a lot in advance.
This may not be what you are experiencing, but we had a similar issue not too long back, can you check if the Objects are visible?
File > Options > Advanced > Display options for this workbook > Objects > Show > All
I am using Excel 2007 (32Bit) on a Windows 7 64Bit machine.
I have a large Workbook with 12 sheets and 18 VBA modules.
All of my subroutines run flawlessly but one is causing the following issue:
The macro itself runs from start to finish successfully just as specified. After running the macro successfully, the workbook crashes, when I try to save it. It also crashes when AutoSave tries to save the workbook. The workbook does not crash when I simply close it.
By crashing, I mean that I get the message "Microsoft Office Excel has stopped working".
In the Windows Event Viewer I have identified the error message 0xc0000005.
In the folder where the workbook is saved, I find the temporary files that Excel creates when saving a workbook (named something like 9BB7B000).
I have tried to repair Excel in the Programs and Features part of the Control Panel but it has not worked. Furthermore no Add-Ins are enabled.
I suspected that the code module of the problem-causing macro was too large (90KB) so I split it up into two modules smaller than 64KB. However, the problem remains.
I would appreciate any help on this issue. I would like to get around reconstructing the workbook manually, if possible, as that would mean an enormous effort.
Thank you very much in advance.
Jochen
I had the same issue some time ago and carried out a research to identify the issue to no avail.
I noticed that it worked fine on workstations with better procs and more ram.
However the only way for me to proceed was to create a new workbook a one-by-one copy each worksheet from the old workbook and see which one is causing the issue. If the macro is causing the error then try to add a "sleep" command between loops so that the Excel file regains control and can execute and awaiting events/commands.
The post was 9 months ago, could you fix it?
What does that specific macro do? Because there are several solutions to this problem.
It seems that a certain "action" in your macro takes too long.
You can search for that specific action and us application.wait to slow your macro down. If this doesn't work, you'll have to find a way to reduce the "workload". But to do that, i'll need to take a look at your code.
Turn off the AutoSave function in Excel Options
We have an Excel workbook which is similar to an Error Codes database. Unfortunately the application is written in such a way similar to IF (ExceptionCode != AnyPreviousExceptionCode) THEN (Make New Exception Code) which gives the messy problem of new, never before seen exception codes appearing on our monitoring software and requiring a team of analysts to investigate. The point being that this Excel workbook of Error Codes changes alot day to day, especially if a big release comes out.
The problem I have is that there is a team who needs to have this workbook open as they need to consult what error code is what, but there is also one person who needs to update this workbook. Excel of course gives full rights to whoever opens the workbook first and everyone else has to wait, however we have a global team so it's not a simple matter of going over to someone and telling them "please can you share the workbook to me".
Is it possible in Excel to set some users as read-only and other users as write access and have this reflect on the GUI so Excel doesn't make the write access user wait for the read-only user to close the workbook?
In Win7 for Excel 2003, 2007 & 2010 there is a dropdown arrow on the right side of the open button in the open dialog. If you click that you get an option to open the file as Read-Only. Can the non editing users open it like this?
Shift+Right Click on an excel file also gives the option to open as read only.
Sorry man, did not see your question a month ago :)